New comment by SpecialBomb on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/44422#issuecomment-1611600560

Comment:
I would like to preface this by saying that I am not telling any of you what to do, and I'm certainly not asking to revert this PR. I appreciate the Void Linux project and its maintainers, and I hate crypto grifts as much as the next person. I don't even dabble in cryptocurrency at all.

However, I and others have discussed this PR and what it entails, and I personally think it's a little shortsighted to remove cryptocurrency packages for the sake of it being associated with scams. While it's most definitely true that the current main use of cryptocurrency is for scams and dubious investments, that doesn't remove from the tangible utility that cryptocurrencies have for many people trying to make anonymous transactions for goods and services.

While I think it's the maintainers' rights to choose what gets added to the repo or not, seeing a decision made like this in such a manner as this doesn't evoke confidence in me or others even if we do think crypto is kinda stupid. I could care less about these packages, but I can't deny that the way they were removed wasn't very thought out or sensible. I do understand why you would want to remove them, and I probably would to, but I think seeing it from another perspective is helpful.

And of course, at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter since nothing is preventing anyone from obtaining and using any of this software from other sources. I just feel like the decision was too subjective.